Quotes About Artistry

When I don't know all the rules, I just break them all. And it becomes like a higher level of music because of that.

I want to do music, and I want that to be the highlight of everything that I do. I want that at the forefront.

I listen to lots of blues records and some of them are funny. BB King's 'How Blue Can You Get' is hilarious.

I loved Lauryn Hill; I loved the Fugees.

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' happens to be my favorite album.

The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the work of the maker... The imagination of man is made in the image of the imagination of God.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

There's always a fascination in watching anybody do a job which he really understands. Watch a woman—a woman who really knows how to cook, I mean—rolling dough. She's got a peculiar, solemn, indrawn air, a satisfied kind of air, like a priestess celebrating a sacred rite.

Koki sangat kasar, tapi dia juga seorang seniman. Karena alasan kemampuan dan ketepatan waktu, dan bukan karena kelebihan dalam keahlian memasak, koki laki-laki lebih disukai daripada perempuan.

In times when evil comes because men misunderstand and hate one another, it is the mission of the artist to praise sweetness, confidence, and friendship, and so to remind men, hardened or discouraged, that pure morals, tender sentiments, and primitive justice still exist, or at least can exist, in this world.

Talent , will , genius are natural phenomena like the lake , the volcano , the mountain , the wind , the star , the cloud .

Honestly, I do not believe in a drunk Byron writing beautiful verses. Inspiration can pass through the soul just as easily in the midst of an orgy as in the silence of the woods, but when it is a question of giving form to your thoughts, whether you are secluded in your study or performing on the planks of a stage, you must be in total possession of yourself.

So I suppose one danger is that we might get the idea that, you know, "to blurt, is to be." The idea that whatever comes out is good and is us. Whereas someone who has really worked with text realizes – well, that neither one is "really" you, but that the considered version might represent a "higher" you – brighter, less willing to coast or condescend, funnier, and (mysteriously) also, I think, kinder.

Randall Jarrell said about stories holds true for the writers of stories: they "don't want to know, don't want to care, they just want to do as they please.

We might think of a story as a candy factory. We understand that the essence of candymaking is…making that piece of candy right there.

There's no skill and no grace to it, but you

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, it is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.

I got a little baby grand piano off Craigslist for, like, $500. It's a beautiful instrument that you hear on a bunch of the songs. That's that piano on 'Keep Your Name' and 'Work Together' and 'Little Bubble.'